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HARLEM GEORGIA Pl’Hl ldU !> KI 1.1: Y THI A '/M> •«* AthiM-o"' i-iiomnoM*- The New York Timet de- fare* that •'all the mo»t successful farmer* are now epecialiaU One grow* apple* and pears, u>d hie name is well known in the mar kata at home and abroad, for thousands of barrel, of choice fruit bearing hi. name are scattered over two continent*. Another produces fine butter, and ha* a rteady and regular market for hi. pro duct. One grow, potatoes and sella several thousand dollars worth every year. Others breed .lock, boms, cattle, sheep, and some poultry and hogs, but all gain a reputation in their own way. end have a sure and wide outlet for th-dr product*. It muat now be so with the majority of fanners, for they have been east adrift from their old landmark and hare fallen into a network of cross cur rent* which carry them wholly away from their former courses. An instance of thia is the dairy, which is wholly at the meicy of a substituted artificial pro duct against which there is no possible competition excepting by making the choicest quality of butter and cheese. Ohio river fiat boatmen in old timet used to have a saying, and believed in it too, that "water is clean after it has flowed over nine stones, no matter w hat It was before." “It would be comforting to fastidious New 5 orkers," says a metro polltan paper, “if they had soma such conviction a. an offset to the hideous information made public by InS|»cctor lewis, of the health department, to the effect that "the territory from which the Croton water supplies is obtained em braces cesspool*. barnyards, **,455 cows, 1,244 horses, 1,500 pigs, and 20 sheep, and a population of 20,000 person, with their dwellings." The first thing we know some I’hils'lclphia newspaper will be finding out about this and saying: 'Why! Hello! Croton water is as filthy as our own Schuylkill" This matter of pollution of the water supplies of our large cities ia a most momentous one already, and must become more and more serkus as our population increases. It is simply enisling, in view of the facts eiisting, that jieoplo arc not more gener ally careful to have thoroughly filtered the water they require for household u«o." Food of the Burmese. The flush of the python is much es teemed bv the Karens for food, and the gad bladder for medicine All lizards of the varanid r family are highly valued for food, and sought for in hollow trees by the aid of dogs. The Karens steal up the tree with a noose at the end of a bamboo, and snare them while leap ing for the water, or catch them in a boat beneath the tree. The head is doomed venomous; but the lle.h of the othei part, is preferred Io fowls. If not neoJeu for immediate consumption, the captive is rendered helpless by breaking some of the toe* and knotting the sinew* The eggs are equally esteemed. The padat (Liontlus guttagus) is herbivorous, ami in high favor ns a viand. The flesh of thi-mijyoung it'rockodilus , which is very common ami reaches thirty feet in length, is In groat request for food. A kind of turtle during the inundations liecomcs scattered about the country, and on the auckidcncc of the floods, and dur ing the grass burning In April, many uro wittier caught alive, or their scorched bodies are found afterward, and greatly relished by the (M-ople The flesh of the soft turtles is generally eaten by the Burmese, and may bj good, though the animals arc carnivorous. The le kpycn won is algivorou., un i is the "edible turtle" of India. I'he boatmen on the river make it a practice, when mooring at a spot, to hunt in the neighboring ducket, for lizards, chameleons. snakes, and similar reptiles, with which thev flavor the invariable dish of boiled rice. Even lizard, found dead are cs eemed a great delicacy when cooked. The Bur mese exhibit decided peculiarities in their choice of comestible. There is a small kind of beetle which fabricates balls of clay as a nidus for its nrogenev. about the same size as tennis balls, and buries them in ground where cattle are stalled These balls are eagerly sought after by the Burmese for the sake of the dainty grub contained within, which thev devour with uncommon relish r** Aw-?. The Birth of an Iceberg. The birth of a huge iceberg, a phe nomenon that has been seen only on e or twice by a European, and to a certain extent has remained a matter of theory, was observed by the Danish explorcrson the east coast of Greenland last summer The bergs aie formed bv breaking off from the perpetual iee of the unexplored interior to the coast and into the sea The water buoy* up the sea end of the glacier until it breaks by its own weight with a noise that sounds like loud thunder miles awav. The commotion of the water, as the iceberg turns over and over in the effort to attain it * balance, is felt to a great distance along the coast. The natives regard it as the work of evil spirits, and believe that to look upon the glacier in its throes is death The Danish officers, when observing the breaking off of the end of the great gia cier Puiasortok through their telescopes, were roughly ordete I by th-.-i Esquimaux escort, usually subm *sive en -gli, to follow their example and turn their Packs on the Interesting scene. They had happily completed their observation, ant av -de i an embarrassing conflict with the crew bv a teeming compliance with the order. ' On'y twenty live |>cr cent, of the 50. <»OU Indian i luldren in this country are receiving ..i education. Pagan .Myo, on the bank of the Irra waddy, just above Minis, and now in possession of the British troops, b the ancient capital of Burmah and in ruins- It extends for two miles along the river and is r ooked with jungle. Its pagodaa are almost count let*. «nd one of them rank* next to the famous Taj Mansi. The neighboring hills are dotted with ruined pagodas razed by the hill tribe* who are no’ Buddhists) for the sake of 1 the gold ami silver images of < aiitsms buried fieoestb each when it wav founded lio English papers contain an order from the privy council which requires ev-ry local authority in England. Bales and Scotland to slaughter within two day* of the existence of the disease becoming known to them all swine affected with swine fever, and all swine which have been in contact with such affected swine, the compensa tion io the former case being fixed at one half the value of the animal and in the latter case st the full value. ,M. de Leweps, the great constructor of canals, has been making some state merits that agriculturist* might think of with profit. He say* that one pound of flour i» worth three pound, of beef. He ask. why cereal- are fed to cattle, hog* and sheep. "Why not," he says, "eat the grain instead of feeding it to ani mal*)” He say* that England is sup porting 82,000,000 rattle, sheep and hog. upon cereal* she herself raise., while ■he import, flour from America to feed her people. Th-* supreme court of Indiana hns just decided that where property has been destroyed by fire from sparks negli gently permitted to escape from a loco motive the owner may recover its full value from the railway company, not withstanding the fact that the property was fully insured and the insurance com pany had paid the loss. In other words, if a person happens to be lucky enough i to have his building burned by a chance snark, and also has it insured in a sol vent company, he may get twice its value in solid cash. A company of American, are to lay a paper railway in Russia. The uses of paper are becoming amazingly extended, and will be likely to do some queer tricks witli rhetoric a. people now may think Perhaps it will not seem strange some year* hence to read in a newspaper of a locomotive "fiercely flagellating the all enduring paper nails, and striking fire I and thunder from them at every mighty : bound," but it seems now as though it 1 would. Inevitably cannon balls will come to be made of paper, and the New- Yorker of the future may learn with sor row and alarm of the demolition of Fort Hamilton by the "heavy paper hail’ | poured upon it by a hostile vessel lying ’ far out at sea. Yow, when the mercury sinks out of 1 sight and the water-pipes freeze up, there is a timely renewal of the proposition to dam the Strait of Belie Isle, between Newfoundland and Labrador, so as to deflect tin Arctic current which now ' passes through, turning it eastward and j allowing the warm water of the Gulf ; Stream to flow northward close to the •bores It is claimed that this warding off of the frigid waters would give mild and genial climate from Nova Scotia to Cape Hatteras, like that of Spain j and Northern Italy In the same latitude. This stringing of new isothermal lines will be expensive, and the scheme is not likely to prosper. But it is better to dam the Strait of Belle Isle than to imprecate the weather. During the past decade the savings batiks of the I n.ted States have de creased to the number of fifty, while ! their total resources have increased ; 1227,000,000, and the aggregate amount of their deposits $189,000,000. The. average amount to each depositor has fluctuated from $.152 to s;isti. From the belt information obtainable the number of savings banks at the present : time, by geographical divisions, is as fo'lows : No. Capital Vw England 420 sj„i l>X | Middle State* .....IM b -uth.-rn Status 5 v»i ,x-o western State* 4S 2.72.1 000 Total. tt’Jl $4,0X1.00) Os the total number of savings banks about 5‘K) arc without capital, which ex plain* in the table above the small amount of total capital. The territory of Alaska is s > far away and in the popular imagination is so closely associate I with polar bears and everlasting snows that, though it is part and parcel of the United States of America, but little is kn >w.i of it bv Americans. There are reasons now for the belief that at no distant day Alaska w ill be more familiar to the people under whose protection it was placed by the purchase of 1837, and it would n t be surprising if, in the development o.' its ' undoubted mineral and timber resources, it should become ere long au important and influential State. The terr.tore is: of vast extent, having more than ~000 ' miles of seacoast, and s > varied is its climate that, while portions of it are I a’most uninhabitable, other sections are, ■ by reason of the warm currents from the 1 Pacific ocean, made as salubr.ous a. the 1 middle Southern States. ’EVEN THE BEGG A IIS RIDE odd thivgb a cobbcupowdewt ■iv iv nauauzi Tba Cl«f •* SSowtevtarw —A t urion* u«r «• Wake BultrZ Brr|*r» on Homßsrk In lb* * I reel* William E. Curtis write* a* follow* from .Montevideo to the Chicago Inter- O-ean: There i» no city more delight fully situated than the capital of Uru guay, and viewed from any direction the prospect of .Montevideo is a lovely one. Vital statistic* give it the small est death rate in the world, and the cli mate is a mixture of June and October. Were it not for those dreadful gales called “pamperos,” which, during the winter season, sweep the whole southern half of the continent from the Andes to theses, searching every nook and crevice for dust to cast into the face* of the people, and parching the akin, thi* place might lie made an earthly type of Paradise. But nothing can afford shelter from these Marching wind*, and even strawberries the year around are no compensation .Montevideo is built upon a limestone reef like a turtle’s back, which extends about two miles into the Rio Plata, and slopes from the center in either direction to the water’s edge, so that the drainage is perfect, and the street, in the middle of the town are 200 feet higher than those along the beach. This ridge shel ter. a hemispherical bay from the storms that come from the Atlantic, but against the pamperos, which are more severe, the shipping has no protection whatever, and when they come vessel* prefer to run outside, where they can have plenty of -ea room, to taking the risk of colli sions in the harbor, for an anchor is of very little use in a pampero. Around the curve of the bay, fronting the water, are a series of beautiful villas, or "quin tas,” as they are called (pronounced kiu tasj, the suburban residences of wealthy men, built in the ancient Italian style, with all the luxury and lavish display of modern extravagance, and reminding I one of the Pompeian palaces, or the ; Roman villas in the golden age which I Horace pictured in his odes. Os the most picturesque architecture, these resi dences would be anywhere attractive, but here they are surrounded by a per petual garden and thousands of flowers, which preserve their color and their fra grance winter and summer, and give the place an appearance of everlasting Bfring. Uruguay is as progressive as the Ar gentine Republic, and is quite as full of modern improvements. There are many j beautiful residences and fine stores in ■Montevideo, and the people proudly boast that anything can be fouud there that can be bought in Paris. There are three theatres and an Italian opera, a race-course, and any number of clubs, a university, public library, museum, and all the etceteras of modern civilization. The ladies dress in the height of Paris fashions, and among the aristocracy serial life is very gay. The people are highly educated, are making money fast, ; and spend it like princes. The Hotel Oriental is the best in South America, , being built of Italian marble and luxuri ously furnished; and there are more daily papers in proportion to the popula tion than in any city in the world ; an illustrated weekly journal is published, and a monthly literary magazine; there are hospitals, asylums, and other benevo i lent institutions supported by public and ' private charityjtwo Protestant churches, > several Protestant schools; fifty-five j miles of street railways, carrying 9,00),- • 000 passengers a year—which is a re ' markably high average for a city of 120,000 people; boulevards and parks, gas and electric lights, telephones without number, : nd only now and theu docs something oc.-ur to remind a tourist that he is not in one of the most modern ! of cities. One of the curious customs is the manufacture of butter. The dairyman pours the milk, while still warm, into an inflated pig or coat skin, hitches it to his saddle by a long latso, and gallops five or six miles into town with the milk sack pounding along on the road behind him. When he reaches the city his churn ing is over, the butter is made, and he peddles it from door to door, dipping out the quantity desired bj- eacli family with a long wooden spoon Though all sorts of modern agricultural machinery are used on the farms of Uruguay, no amount of persuasion can induce the natives to adopt the wooden churn. Some of the foreigners use them, but the butter is said to be not s> good as that made in this curious, primitive fashion. Fresh milk is sold by driving cows from door to door along the princi pal streets and milking them into the jars brought out by the customers. The standing army of Uruguay con sists of 5,000 men,mostly concentrated at the capital. Their uniform is of the zouave pattern, with the exception of the president s body guard, a battalion of 300 or -100 men, dressed in a novel and striking costume of leopard skins. There are several fine bands connected with the army which give concerts on alternate evenings in the plazas, which are attended by all classes of people, and furnish an opportunity f -r flirtations. Everybody rides. No one thinks of walking. Each family has its carriage and saddle horse, and even the beggars ,go about the streets on horseback. It is a common thing to be stopped on the street by a horseman and asked for a “centavo.” which is worth two and a half cents of our money. These inci dents are somewhat startling at first, and suggest highway robbery, but the appeal is made in such a humble, pitiful tone that the feeling of alarm s ion vanishes. "For the love of Jesus, Senor, give a poor, sick man a centavo. ' I’ve had no bread or coffee to day.” And receiving the pittance the beggar will gallop off like a cowb.iv to the nearest drinkin” place. The nation il drink is called cana ( pro , nounced canyahl. and is made of the fer mented juice of the sugar cane. It con tains about ninety per cent, alcohol, and i is s>ld at two cents a goblet, so that a spree in Uruguay is within the reach of the poorest man But there is verv little intemperance in comparison with that in our own country. On oidinarv days drunken men are seldom seen upon tin l streets, but on the evening after a 1 religious feast the common people usual- j - ly engige in a glorious carousal. Tire vestibules of the tenement hous-s. ‘ and the patios or courts which invaria bly turn sh a cool loafing place in the 1 center of each, are commonly paved with the knuckle bones of sheets, sr- ranged in fantastic design* like mosaic ' work. They always attract the atten ■ tion of strangers, and it is a standins joke to tell the tenderfoot that they an the knuckle bones of human lie.ng! > killed during the many revolutions i The ladies of Uruguay are considered to rank next to their sisters of Peru in , beauty, and there is something about the atmosphere which gives the r complex ion a purity and clearness that is not else where found. But when they reich maturity, like all Spanish ladies, the-, lose their grace and symmetry of form, and become very stout. This is un doubtedly owing in a great degree tfi their lack of exercise, for they never walk, but spend their entire lives in a carriage or a rocking-chair. The policemen in Montevideo are de tailed from the anny and carry sabers instead of clubs, which they use with telling effect upon offenders who resist arrest. A few years ago there was no safety for people who were out late nt 1 night either in the city or the country. robberies and murders were of frequent occurrence, and the prisons were empty. But President Santos rules with an iron hand, and after a few highwaymen and murderer* were hanged, there was a no ticeable change in the condition of af fairs, and now a woman or a child is as safe upon the streets or highways of the country as in their own homes. WISE WORDS. When one becomes so conceited that he can’t be taught, he and a fool wear the same style of cap. Nobody is perfect, but forbearance and love do much to soften the irritable, hard edges of existence. Good fortune seldom comes pure and single, unattended by some troublesome or unexpected circumstance. If all would realize that cruelty is a* bitter to others as it is to themselves, I there would be less of it practiced. Nothing is so great an instance of ill manners an flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none. If you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. No character can possibly embrace all types of perfection, for the perfection of a type depends not only upon the virtues that constitute it, but upon the order and prominence assigned to them. Prejudices are like the knots in the glass of our windows. They alter the shape ot everything that we choose to look at through them; they make straight things crooked and everything indistinct. Sympathy produces harmony; it smoothes off the rough edges of conflict ing characters; it brings the cheeriness of the hopeful to cha.e away the feais of the desponding; it draws reinforce ment for the weakness or the want of some from the wealth or strength of others. Scaring the Chinamen. The engineer of an ocean steamship iu I the course of a conversation with a New York Tribune reporter said: "I have on a book n the engine room a curious table of dates and figures, which shows to me the exact time for every mi.e m de by different steamers which I have en- ginecred across the ocean for the last i fourteen years. If anything more than | usual occurs I jot it down opposite the , date, and so make a sort of diary of it. : It speaks volvmes to me, and recalls I many interesting memories. For in stance. I was looking through it the other day, and I found opposite Novcm- | ber 1(1, 1875, a reference to a visit fr in Chinamen. The incident was rec.died j t > my mind in a moment, and 1 laughed heartily over it to myself. Thi- is what J it meant. One day while lying in port we were visited by several Chinamen ; who were anxious to inspect the ship, j They were au ignorant set, and had never seen any machinary worked by I steam. The captain was a good-natured I fellow and allowed them to come below, although they experienced some doubts ns to the ad visibility of so doing. They were very timid, and it tcok some time for me to convince them that the ma- | chinery was harmless. Finally I got ; two of them to come close to the heavv : driving roJ, which yo i know on a large j vessel is an enormous piece of iron. Sud- 1 denly, without warning, it gave a start forward, and, accompanied by a loud I puff of steam, leaped fully ten feet above our heads. Angry at my assistant for 1 letting on steam without my knowledge, I turned to speak to him when my atten tion was attracted toward the stairway, j The last two Chinamen of the party were ; making frantic endeavors to jump up : half a dozen steps at a time The rest ! had disappeared, and before I could get on deck the whole crowd had got into 1 their boat and started for the shore. No amount of persuasion could ever o-et them to return to that ship, which they j claimed was alive. It was a mean trick, ; but it has afforded me a good laugh since.” Man's Deepest Emotion. The deepest emotion that man knows is love. If, like the air plants, its roots are upward, and love works with moral sentiment, it is divine, and is that at mosphere through which the image, the ideal, the true thought of God is to make itself known. Il is the great end toward which all creation is tending. The discovery of that thought has been of inconceivable comfort to me. fori have seen the human race beginning at the lowest state of an iraalism, grasping, cruel; I have seen the animal creation organized for cruelty the shark, the leopard, the lion, as if de structiveness was part and parcel of the original creative design: out of it 1 have seen little by little emerging other qualities; love of cubs and whelps; with slow steps I have seen the animal creation reach to the level of the human family, and that family under one mystic in fluence, which we cannot call nature, for it seems to contradict nature at everv step: I have seen the steady unfolding toward intelligence, toward refinement’ ' . toward imagination, whose eves are aw.iv from organized matter: of ascent and the law of unfolding at last seems this: To set the whole of creation upon a march from the lowest form of unorganized i matter up through everv variation of j organization, through every form of pas sion. still seeking it knows not wha-. until later ages descry that star that all > creation is seeking and aroun i whieh it I lis revolving; and love is that, nnd is th- •! j final end of creation.— Ue <ru Bur./ I ; AsrAcr. SELECT SIFTINGS. Birds are said to leave the vicinity where cholera prevails. A novelty at Cumberland, Md-, is » goose that crows like a rooster. The pistol was invented in Pistola, in | Tuscany, by Camillo Vitelli, in the six ' teenth century. A. man has been discovered in Eng land, who during the greater part of his forty-two years, has of choice lived in a ' dark loft over a school upon food pur ' loined from the establishment. There was an old notion that the ser pent caused death without pain, a popular fancy which Shakespeare has introduced into his "Antony and Cleopatra.” Hast thou the pretty worm ot Nilus there. That kills and pains not.* Platinum wire can be drawn so fine that it is no longer visible to the "naked” eve, and can only be felt. It can be seen with a magnifying glass when the wire is held against white paper. It is used in telescopes and sim ilar instruments. A good fat sheep was grazing in a field near Mount Pleasant, Penn., when a big bald eagle sw-ooped down upon it like a lightning boit. It buried its talons so deep in the sheep's back that it could not release itself, and the sheep ran home, when the immense bird was captured. The painting of Egypt existed un changed for a period of more than. 2,000 years, with a stability unequaled in the other civilizations ot the world . It was, perhaps, not quite so extensively em ployed in the ancient kingdom as in the later times; paintingscan be dated as far back as the third dynasty (3,818 to 3,124 B. C., according to Lepsius). but they were restricted to interior decoration. The walls of the Pyramids were un adorned by color. A person struck by lightning does not know it, the fluid being much quicker than thought. The nerves which con vey pain are rather slow in their power to convey information. Stick a pin in the tail of an elephant and quite a per ceptible interval occurs before the noble animal gives his opinion of the man or boy at the end of the nervous system on trial. Lightning does its work before the victim knows anything. Two men were struck while taking refuge undec a tree. Both were carried into the house, and laid out for dead. One of the men revived, and after weeks of suffering and infirmity, he got out again, and is still living. He said that he knew no more about having been struck by lightning than he was conscious of having lived before the flood. It was all news to him when told of the fact. HEALTH HINTS. Nurses in a sick room should not sit or stand too near the patient, and above all things they should avoid talking when leaning over a sick person. Freckle cure.—Take two ounces of iemon juice, or half a drachm of pow dered borax, and one drachm of sugar; mix together and let them stand in a glass bottle for a few days, then rub on the face occasionally. Few people Know how to apply a mustard plaster so as not to blister the skin. If the mustard be mixed with the white of an egg, instead of water, the plaster will draw thoroughly without blistering lhe most delicate skin. At a recent meeting of the New York Odontological society, Dr. E. I'armly Brown said: “I will venture the asser tion that the excessive use of common salt is one of the main factors in the destruction of human teeth to day.” Writers in the London Lancet call at tention to the great value of hot water applications to the head incases of faint-, ing or syncope. They say also that a prompt use of it, applied to the forehead with cloths, wi 1 very often avert such attacks. A Peculiar People. ‘•The nest for godly people,” says the ! Odessa correspondent of the London j Times, "is the title of a Russian religious sect which has come into existence dur , ing the last fifteen years. Its head j quarters appear to be at the historic I fortress town of Bender, in the neigh boring government of Bessarabia, and its strange name is due to the fact that its members—all of the peasant class— ; dig a grave in the floor (which is of : dried earthi of their habitations, or else I in their gardens, and lie therein until overcome by hunger, in order, as they say, to commune with God, to confess to Him their sins, and examine their past life. To enable them the better to do this the grave is covered with a xvooden. box-like lid or canopy, having a door in ! it for ingress and egress; so that they lie in the grave as in a coffin, and were it not for small apertures iu the top part of it thev would run the risk of being suffocated. When the grave or ‘nest’ is in the garden it as thickly surrounded with bushes for the sake of greater privacy, and guarded by a savage watch dog to prevent curious or impertinent people coming near it. * These sectarians pretend that in their ecstatic moments, and when suffering extreme hunger, they see saints and devils, and some of them are subject to hallucinations. Another peculiarity of the members of this sect is that they hold as little con versation as possible with other people, or in fact with each other; s> that the kind of life which they endeavor to lead is akin to that of uncloistered monks.” The Bee Hive. ♦ .* » » * . * * * Observe * * * s « $ these busy little t 4 » bees a laying up their » » « * honey and try to be as * » wise as these by saving all « your money. You smoke, say * five cigars awav and drink, say six times daily; cards, pool , and billiards, too. you plav and treat the feliows gayly. In twenty years this fun will cost, according to good scholars, with interest and time tnat s lost just 820,000. But if you count your loss of health and self-inflicted tr üble vo l'll fin 1 this foolish waste of wealth will figure more than double Then when it’s time no more to slave but pleas , ure take, so sick you will feel because you i didn t save you'll want some one to kick vow j So imitate these busy bees and all your pen n:es treasure and then when older take youi - ease with fortv years of pleasure. ll. C.Dod'je. in Goodall's Sun. I X BIRD FANCIER'S STORY. HT.T.TWn H'W CAXAXT BXB3S AU TAUGHT TO SISTG And then Narrating a J" eldeni ot a t anary Bird thai lie Derma Pricrle** “It is very hard to make a canary bird sing a tune.”said an uptown bird fancier to "an inquisitive amateur ornithologist, “very hard, indeed, and ’ Lave only one tune singing bird in my shop. It takes a year or so of hard work to tiain a bird to this state of musical perfection. In Germany, where most of our. canary birds come from, there are families that do nothing else for a livelihood except train birds in this accomplishment. It is done in this way: They always have one bird that can sing a tune, and he is shut up in a dark room with a young bird that has already shown some ability as a singer. After a while the young bird begins to imitate the other, and in the course of a couple of months he can sing the tune very well. Then he is taken away from his teacher, and a music box that plays the same tune is put into the room, and the old bird is transferred to another room, where he teaches the same lesson to another young bird. Only one bird can be taught at a time, and, "as very often the young bird is unable to learn a tune at all, you can form some idea of the difficulties in the way of the work. Os course this makes the" birds very expensive. An ordinary canary bird sells for $3, and some bring $5, while a bird that sings a tune readily commands S6O to SSOO, according to the extent and merits of its accomplish ments. I have known of a canary that could sing three tunes, but such birds are very rare indeed. I never heard of another. That one belongs to the King of Bavaria. “I own a singing bird that can't be got from me with money,” said the dealer, as he turned to a cage behind him. "He only sings one tune, but I can tell you a remarkable story about him. My daughter trained him herself when we lived In Germany six years ago. She trained him to sing a song of her own improvisation. Os course it is much harder for a person to train a bird than for another bird to be the teacher, and it took her nearly six months before the little tellow could sing it through without making a mistake.” Here the bird fancier whistled a few bars of a melody which the bird took up and finished without a break. "Well,” continued the dealer, "at about that time I concluded to come to America, and leaving my daughter be hind me—l was a widower —I sailed for New York. ,Soon after landing I opened a store in Harlem and sent for my daughter. By some mishap I failed to meet her, and the most careful inquiries threw no light on her whereabouts. I knew she had sailed, but I couldn’t learn the name of the steamer or any thing about her. At last, after search ing for her until I had spent almost all the money I had, I gave up in despair. One day I was walking down Mulberry street, when 1 heard a street boy whistling this very air you have just heard the bird sing. I stopped him. and inquired where he had heard it. He said that a young woman in the same tenement houses where he lived had a bird that sang it. Need I say more? I had him lead me there at once, and soon dis covered that the owner of the bird was my lost daughter. She was miserably poor, and xvas making her living scrub bing offices. She hid come on another steamer than the one I had intended her to take, and having lost my address had not been able to trace me any better than I had her.”—.Veio York- Sun. A Romance of the Ball Field. The marriage of Williamson, the pro ficient third basemen of the Chicago nine, says the Chicago News, was a very romantic and happy one. His wife was a beautiful New Orleans girl of good ex traction. The Chicago club was playing an exhibition game in that city, and Flint, the catcher, and his wife acci dentally met the young lady at her hotel. Mrs. Flint invited her to witness the game. She had never seen one, and knew nothing of and cared little for the pastime, but she consented to go if Mrs. Flint would promi-e her not to introduce her to any- baseball people. The prom - ise was given and the ladies attended the game. I'he young lady was consider ably interested in the playing, and seemed to have her heart set on having the Chicagos win. The champions,how ever. xvere getting worsted, and it de pended on a good batsmen to win the game for them. They had the final in nings, and three men on bases would be left there if the striker failed. William son came to the bat, and the youag lady unconsciously arose from her seat in her excitement. She took in the situation, and pulling off her corsage bouquet said to Mrs. Flint, ‘-if he brings those men in I’ll throw him these flowers.” Others were as excited as she. There was not a sound. Williamson was the only cool one there. lie got the ball he wanted and sent it “kiting.” The result was three tallies by the other men and a home run himself. Williamson made that home run straight into the girl's heart. As he touched the home plate and sped farther by the momentum of his run, he came panting underneath the girl with a bouquet. She raised it aloft and tossed it at his feet. He picked it up as the cheers of the specta tors rent the air, and he bent low in a bow to bis admirer. Blushing at her own audacity, she sat down and buried her face on Mrs. Flint’s shoulder. That night there was a reception to the club at the hotel, and she was presented to the home-runner. They looked into each other’s eyes, and the umpire Cupid cried out, "One strike.” What Scared Him. Oh. dainty, darling Isabelle, I loved you fondly, madly, too; How wildly I can never tell. Since I can never come to woo. I vowe l that I would make you mine, I vowed that I your love would win; But now no longer do I pine, I only think what might have been. Your sylph-like form, your lovely face. With passion filled my wounded heart. Made captive by your airy grace— But now. alas! we two must part! Fo>- you and I can never mate, My passion all has died away, Sin-oe by a hard, relentle-s fate. J saw you eat or; Ci.. i-t-nas day. Som?rci'.le Jjumal.